ITANAGAR, 10 Jun: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday defended the proposed 11,000 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in Arunachal Pradesh, calling it a “strategic necessity” for India’s ...

Residents of the region have been opposing the project. Members of the Adi tribe, who live in the Siang basin, claim that the ...

Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday defended the proposed 11,000 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) in Arunachal Pradesh, calling it a “strategic necessity” for India’s national security ...

They argued that resistance to the project by local communities reflected a grounded understanding of its ‘ecological, ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has hit back at Pakistan for claiming China could choke the flow of the Brahmaputra ...

Brahma Chellaney urges the international community to hold China accountable for its destruction of the Tibetan Plateau.

India has held the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance after the Pahalgam terror attack. This move has triggered panic in ...

In a sharp response to Pakistan’s latest “scare narrative", Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday took down the rhetoric that China could choke the flow of the Brahmaputra to India with ...

Sarma had flagged this concern earlier in January, stating, "We have already communicated that if this dam comes then the Brahmaputra ecosystem will become fragile and dry and then we will depend on ...

Reacting to a Pakistani official's threat that China can also halt the flow of the River Brahmaputra into India, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday described the remark as ...

He pointed out that China contributes only 30-35 per cent of the Brahmaputra's total flow -- mostly through glacial melt and limited Tibetan rainfall. The remaining 65-70 per cent is 'generated within ...

Some experts are of the opinion that while China has made no official plans to block the Brahmaputra River, Beijing has announced the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam, across the ...